- [Instructor] If you're looking
to boost your growth on Instagram,
Kicksta maybe exactly the tool that you're looking for.
Kicksta helps you find accounts that are similar to yours,
and then attract their followers
to also follow your account.
So, I'm on the Kicksta homepage here,
and if we scroll down a little bit,
they tell you how this process works.
So, you find profiles similar to yours,
you auto-engage with their followers,
and then you hopefully get followed back.
So to get started,
you can click on the start my growth button
at the top right.
So, once you start getting your Kicksta account set up,
you first enter your Instagram user name,
and then you tell Kicksta what industry you're a part of.
And when you do that, you get to this onboarding process,
and there's a little video that shows you how it works.
And then when you scroll down,
it starts suggesting some profiles
for you to auto-engage with their followers,
and you can add them as targets.
So, we'll go ahead and add a few of these for my account.
Okay, so we've gone through the targets that they suggested.
And then we could also add some custom targets if we wanted.
So, if there was a particular profile,
maybe a competitor of ours on Instagram
that we wanted to interact with their followers,
we could enter their Instagram handle here.
We could also enter a specific hashtag
to engage with followers that are following that hashtag.
Or, people in a specific location,
so that's great if
you're kind of a brick and mortar organization,
and you want to reach out to people in your local area.
I'm not going to add any custom targets right now,
however, so I'll just go ahead
and click on the complete setup button.
So once you do that,
you get a little note from Kicksta saying,
they're starting to customize their algorithms
to maximize your growth.
And it kind of gives you an idea
of how fast they except your account to grow.
So you can see it's going to kind of pick up week one,
week two, and then it gets a little faster
as time goes on.
And so then you can kind of scroll down.
And we'll say we understand that.
And let's go to our Kicksta dashboard.
Okay, so on our dashboard, we an see all of the targets,
so those are the accounts that we are currently
targeting to gain their followers on our account as well.
We can see how many followers they have,
when we added that as a target.
And if we scroll down a little bit here,
you'll notice that, like in the onboarding process,
we could add additional targets.
So again, you could add some competitors,
you could add some hashtags,
and then you should start to see your
growth happen over time.
The way Kicksta works is
you will actually automatically like a couple photos
from some of the followers of these accounts.
So you're not going to be automatically
commenting on these accounts.
You're not going to be automatically
following these accounts.
You're just liking a couple of their photos.
Because there is this fear of bots on Instagram.
So you may have uploaded a post sometime,
and then you get this comment that's
a really canned comment.
It's not actually related to your post.
And you can tell that, hey it's a bot
and they are fishing for interactions.
That's not what Kicksta is going to do.
You're just going to be liking their photos,
but because you are automatically
going to be liking a couple of their post,
I really recommend when you start
doing your uploads later on,
and maybe when you start engaging with
these users with comments that you really are authentic
with your engagements.
Because you don't want to be label as a bot account.
Kicksta really kind of helps you get that growth going,
and then it's up to you to be authentic
and engage with these followers for real.
So I just want to throw that out there.
Because bots are a problem on Instagram,
and in a way, Kicksta is sort of a bot,
but it's not going to be putting
fake comment or anything like that.
So I recommend that if you do use Kicksta
that you understand that there is
a bot process going on with your account.
It's not that invasive.
But that means you need to focus even more
about being authentic when you are actually
engaging with other users on Instagram.
So that they understand that you're not
just a bot account and you're complete fake.
Right? They need to know you are real.
But there will be an automatic liking
of a couple their pictures.
So I wanted to let that be known,
so that you understand what's happening
behind the scenes.
And so I really recommend that
when you are uploading your post,
and when you start interacting with there followers
that you don't do so using a bot.
That you actually are being a real person.
And you're actually interacting with them personally.
But if you are really focused on Instagram
as one of your primary tools,
Kicksta is a great option.
Now there is a price to it.
So I believe it's $49 a month.
It's not a tier packaging.
You either get it, or you don't.
So that is something to think about.
I think this is great for influencers
who are actually seeing revenue come from Instagram.
If you're just using it to kind of market your business,
then you'll kind of have to do some math
on your marketing ROI,
if that's actually worth it for you or not,
how much you actually are converting Instagram users.
But for those people who are monetizing on Instagram,
this can be a really really powerful tool to gain
a big following very fast.